West Manchester Township’s Linda Bean has recorded the stories of about 125 Vietnam War veterans in her 10 years with ALLVETS. So she’s well suited to summarize the stories of these veterans from York ...
Flying a bare 100 feet above the jungle hills west of Hue, 5 bulky 'C-123 providers' cut loose a spray of chemical defoliant on August 14, 1968. DA NANG, Vietnam (AP) — The Vietnam War ended on April ...
The Vietnam War was a complex, controversial conflict that cost tens of thousands of American soldiers’ lives, and hundreds of thousands of lives of soldiers and civillians in Vietnam, Cambodia and ...
Millions of casualties. Years of bloody attrition warfare. When Vietnamese communists toppled French colonial rule in 1954 despite massive U.S. military aid, the Geneva Accords temporarily divided ...
Turning Point: The Vietnam War is a five-part docuseries, directed by Brian Knappenberger, that examines how the United States became involved in the civil war in Vietnam, starting in the early 1960s, ...
Is Central Asia Still Russia’s Backyard? The country is moving closer to a genuine reckoning with painful and politically sensitive realities about the war that pitted Vietnamese against each other.
Stay on top of what’s happening in the Bay Area with essential Bay Area news stories, sent to your inbox every weekday. The Bay Bay Area-raised host Ericka Cruz Guevarra brings you context and ...
The period from the Paris Peace Agreement of January 1973, which marked the end of the United States’ direct military involvement in the Vietnam War, to the fall of Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) in ...
The Vietnam War was a vast calamity that cost millions of lives. In the chaos of the air war, MiGs and Phantom fighters duelled for supremacy, while B-52 bombers and other types smashed vast areas to ...
In 2023, Pennsylvania issued a law declaring March 29 as Vietnam War Veterans Day. Gov. Josh Shapiro’s law coincided with the 50th anniversary in 2023 of the United States’ withdrawal from Vietnam and ...
DA NANG, Vietnam (AP) — The Vietnam War ended on April 30, 1975, when the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to Communist forces. But millions of people still face daily battles with its chemical ...